Senior Director, Software Development

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Networking is the foundation that enables customers to run mission-critical workloads at global cloud scale.

We’re rearchitecting OCI’s virtual network control and management systems from the ground up to support the next generation of networking services. This is a unique opportunity to influence the architecture of one of the world’s largest cloud networking platforms. We’re looking for experienced leaders with proven record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems, deep understanding of distributed orchestration services, and a passion for growing high-performant teams to join our leadership team.

Our team develops the core infrastructure that powers OCI Networking’s control plane, solving complex challenges in managing network configuration at cloud scale. You’ll collaborate across OCI Networking and Infrastructure teams to shape the future of OCI Networking., As a Senior Director of the software engineering division, you will apply your org leadership experience and extensive knowledge of software architecture to lead software engineering organization which designs, develops, deploys and operates highly available large-scale distributed services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction and strategy to an organization through managers and technical leads.

• Establish and develop the organization to meet and execute on strategy.

• Partner across OCI organizations to build reliable, scalable, and operable cloud infrastructure.

• Deliver large scale projects on-time with the high quality.

• Drive cross-organization projects across OCI Core Infrastructure.

You should value simplicity and scale, thrive in a collaborative environment, and enjoy solving challenging distributed systems problems.

• 10+ years of experience leading teams building and operating highly available, production-grade large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

• Familiarity with networking fundamentals and configuration management is highly desirable.

• Experience driving modern software development and deployment practices - CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems.

• Demonstrated org leadership, including defining and driving organizational goals, managing managers, mentoring for growth, and leading cross-org initiatives.

• BS or MS